The New Jersey Association of Realtors (NJAR) has recognized 11 Coccia Realty agents as inductees in its Circle of Excellence Award for the year 2012 for Coccia Realty’s local offices of Rutherford, Lyndhurst and Kearny. The recipients for the Bronze Level were: Zoraida Alonso, Louise Bloomer, Gerardo Coppola, Beatrice Goldberg, Carol Hanson, Carol Hughes, [...]
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May 8th, 2013 
admin Wayne T. Creech Wayne T. Creech, 62, died on May 2 in the St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston. Arrangements were by the Thiele-Reid Family Funeral Home, 585 Belgrove Dr., Kearny. A funeral service was held at First Presbyterian Church, Kearny, followed by interment at Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield. Condolences and memories may be shared at www.thiele-reid.com. [...]
Golden Jubilee
May 1st, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Next month, the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, will be the setting for a Mass of Thanksgiving in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Msgr. Francis R. Seymour, KHS (which in this case, despite this story’s dateline, does not stand [...]
More eyes in the sky keeping watch
May 1st, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Big Brother is watching you in Kearny … from the sky and from the ground. For added security, the town has installed 11 additional surveillance cameras on Public Service utility poles around town, and the Police Department monitors the traffic in real time on computer screens at headquarters [...]
Monday, bloody Monday
May 1st, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – What began as a call last week to break up a street fight ended with one of the combatants hospitalized, three Kearny police cars put out of service, three officers assaulted, their uniforms and much of their personal police equipment contaminated beyond salvaging, and the cell block and [...]
Cafe Ole took time to prepare but now all the ingredients are here
May 1st, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – ‘Way better!” That’s how Harrison eighth-grader Joseph Renderos contrasts the lunches being served up now at Washington Middle School with the bad old days when kids waited for food service workers to ship over meals prepared some six blocks away at Harrison High. And classmate Luis Hurtado likes [...]
2nd highest school post still up in the air
May 1st, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Last fall, Franklin Elementary School – where Yvonne Cali serves as principal – implemented the Positive Behavior Support in Schools program designed to recognize good behavior by students. Now Cali may be wondering if the same principle can be extended toward her employers – members of the Kearny [...]
Redeveloper selected for school site
May 1st, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent BELLEVILLE – In a split vote, the Belleville governing body has picked the Riefolo Construction Co. to redevelop the old School 1 property for residential use. On April 23, the mayor and Township Council selected Riefolo over its rival bidder, Group D Capital Partners I, which had pitched a “retail, [...]
Thoughts & Views: We all need to be vigilant today
May 1st, 2013 admin Some weeks ago, after completing my work at The Observer after 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, I drove to Kearny High School to take some photos of the stalled construction project. I parked my car on Devon St., close to the main entrance, and proceeded to take some shots of the classroom trailers on the school’s [...]
WE’VE GOT MAIL
May 1st, 2013 admin To the Editor: In recognition of May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, I’d like to encourage Nutley motorists and motorcyclists alike to commit to “sharing the road” during the month and all year long, in a collective effort to reduce motorcycle death and injuries. Motorcycles are among the smallest and most vulnerable vehicles on the [...]
